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HIS-2002: The Sami Nation. Indegenous people, ethnic minorities and the multi-cultural society

Syllabus
Total curriculum: 700 pages.


Reading list

Titles marked with ● are available in compendia


Historiography and theory (111)

· Sven Tägil: “Introduction”, in Sven Tägil (ed.): Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World, London: Hurst & Company 1995, pp. 1-32 (32)
· Einar Niemi: “History of Minorities: The Sami and the Kvens”, in William H. Hubbard (et.al.) Making a Historical Culture: Historiography in Norway, Oslo 1995, pp. 325-346 (21)
· Henry Minde: The Post-War Sami Society in Norwegian Historiography: Paper presented to the First international Conference of Arctic Social Sciences, Universié Laval, October 1992 (30)
· S. Jones: "Ethnicity, the conceptual and theoretical terrain", chap. 4 (p. 56 - 83) in: The Archaeology of Ethnicity. Constructing identities in the past and present, London & New York 1997. (28)




Ancient and medieval history (137)

· Knut Odner: ”Saamis (Lapps), Finns and Scandinavians in history and prehistory: ethnic origins and ethnic processes in Fenno- Scandinavia”, with comments from: Knut Bergsland, C.-A. Moberg, Bjørnar Olsen & Inger Zachrisson, as well as reply to comments from Knut Odner; in: Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol. 18, no. 1/2, 1995, pp.1–35. (35)
· Lars Ivar Hansen: “Interaction between Northern European sub-artic Societies during the Middle Ages”, in Magnus Rindal (ed.): Two studies on the Middle Ages, KULTs skriftserie No. 66, The Research Council of Norway, Oslo 1996, 31-95. (65)
· Thomas Wallerström: "The Saami between East and West in the Middle Ages: an archaeological contribution to the history of reindeer breeding", Acta Borealia, vol. 17, no. 1/2000, pp. 3-39. (37)


Socio-economic history and resource management (121)

· Robert Paine: “Chances in the Ecological and Economic Bases in a Coast Lappish District”, in: South Western Journal of Anthropology, vol. 14, 1958, pp. 168-189 (21)
· Hugh Beach, Reindeer-Herd Management in Transition: The Case of Tuorpon Saameby in Northern Sweden, Stockholm 1981, chapter 5: "Reindeer-Management Terms" and chapter 6 "Basic-Determinant Relations" (21)
· Johannes Marainen: “The Swedish-Norwegian Convention on the Right of the Migratory Sami to Reindeer Grazing Lands: General background, Conditions and Consequences of the Convention” in Birgitta Jahreskog (ed) The Sami National Minority in Sweden, Uppsala 1982. Pp. 62-76 (14)
· Bård A. Berg: “Government Intervention into Sámi Reindeer-Management in Norway: Has it prevented or provoked “Tragedies of the Commons”?”, in: Acta Borealia 1996:2, (19)
· Bård A. Berg: ”Effects of different reindeer-management laws on the development of Sami reindeer-herding in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia”, paper presented in Saariselka August 2003, Rangifer 2004 (in print) (15)
· Elina Helander: “Sustainability in the Sami Area: The X-file Factor”, in Elina Helander (ed.): Awakened Voice: The Return of Sami Knowledge, Nordic Sami Institute: Diedut 1996:4, pp. 1-6 (6)
Jukka Nyyssönen: “The Environmental Sustainability of the Property Rights Régimes in Inari: The Performance of Forest Government and Reindeer Herding Co-operatives”, in Svein Jentoft, Henry Minde & Ragnar Nilsen: Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights. Eburon Delft 2003, pp. 249-274 (25)


Land and water rights (95)

· Magnus Mörner: “The Colonization of Norrland by Settlers during the Nineteenth Century in Broader Perspective”, Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 7 (4), 1982, pp. 315-337 (22)
· Einar Niemi: “Sami History and the Frontier Myth: A Perspective on the Northern Sami Spatial and Rights History”, in Harald Gaski (ed): Sami Culture in a New Era. Karasjok 1997, pp. 62-85 (24)
· Steinar Pedersen: “State or Saami Ownership of Land in Finnmark?” in Roger Kvist (ed.): Readings in Saami History, Culture and Language II, Umeå University 1991, pp.69-84 (15)
· Steinar Pedersen, “Norwegian nationalism and Saami areas as no-man’s land”, in Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.): Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå 2002, pp. 167-182 (15)
· Tom G. Svensson: The Sámi and Their Land. Oslo: Novus forlag 1997. Chapter XI: ”Concluding remarks”, pp. 187-197 (10)

Source materials:

· The Finnmark Act (excerpts from web-pages: The Norwegian Sami Parliament) (12)


Minority policy (130)

· Knut Einar Eriksen & Einar Niemi: Den finske fare. Oslo 1981, Chapter: ”The Finnish menace. Boundary problems and minority policy in the North (1970-1940), pp. 352-374 (22)
· Roger Kvist: “Swedish saami policy, 1550-1900”, in Roger Kvist (ed): Readings in Saami History, Culture and Language III, Umeå university 1992, pp. 63-77, (14)
· Lars Elenius: “A Place in the Memory of Nation. Minority Policy towards the Finnish Speakers in Sweden and Norway”, in: Acta Borealia, vol. 19 (2), 2002, pp. 103-123 (20)
Henry Minde, "The Challenge of Indigenism: The Struggle for Sami Rights in Norway 1960-1990", in Svein Jentoft (et al, eds.): Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights, Delft: Eburon Delft, 2003, pp.75-104 (29)
· Lennart Sillanpää: Political and Administrative Responses to Sami Self-Determination. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters 1994, chapter III: “Administrative Structures on Indigenous Issues”, pp. 87-132 (45)


Religion and identity (59)

· Nellejet Zordrager: De rettferdiges strid: Kautodeino 1852. Vett & viten as Gronningen 1997, pp. 454-461, chapter ”Summery”, (8)
· Henry Minde: ”Constructing ’Laestadianism’: A case for Sami survival?” Acta Borealia, vol. 15 (1), 1998, pp. 5-25 (20)
· Johan Eriksson: ”The construction of Sápmi: Towards a transnational polity?” in: Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.): Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå 2002, pp. 239-250 (11)
· Vigdis Stordahl: “Ethnic Integration and Identity Management: Discourses of Sami Self-Awareness”, in Ludger Müller-Wille & Linna Weber Muller-Wille (eds.): Changes in Contemporary Northern Societies. Diedut nr. 7 /Northern Studies Forum (10)
· Bård A. Berg: “The Idea of a Sami Nation”, (Norwegian version in print in Speculum Boreale, Tromsø 2004 (10)


Ethnic revitalization (55)

· Regnor Jernsletten: “The Sami Movement of Norway: Idea and strategy 1900-1940”, chapter 12 (summery) in Regnor Jernsletten: Samebevegelsen I Norge Idé og strategi 1900-1940. Center for Sami studies, University of Tromsø 1998, pp. 168-177 (10)
· Regnor Jernsletten: “The development of a Saami élite in Norden”, in: Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.): Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå 2002, pp. 147-166 (19)
· Jelena Sergejeva: “The Situation of the Sami People in Kola”, in Gayim, Eyassu & Myntti, Kristian (eds), Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Rights – 1933 and After, Juridica Lapponica No 11, Rovaniemi 1995 (s 176-188) (12)
· Teemu Ryymin: “Creating Kvenness: identity building among the Arctic Finns in northern Norway”, Acta Borealia, 2001 (1), (14)



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